James O. Coplien

Jim ("Cope") Coplien is an author whose works range from programming and architecture to ethnography and organizational design. He is a founder of the Software Pattern discipline and of organizational patterns, which in turn were one of the foundations of Scrum. His writings mix technology and human concerns. His latest work "A Scrum Book" is about how people work effectively together, and "Lean Architecture" describes how architecture addresses the needs of both programmers and end users. His first book, "Advanced C++" took a little more than two years to write; "Multiparadigm Design" took five years and "A Scrum Book" and "Organizational Patterns" took ten.Cope lives in Denmark with his wife Gertrud Bjørnvig.